plumage
Noun
Meaning
The entire clothing of a bird.
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The real jewel of my disease-ridden woodlot is the prothonotary warbler. ... The flash of his gold-and-blue plumage amid the dank decay of the June woods is in itself proof that dead trees are transmuted into living animals, and vice versa.
The howling pariah dogs, the cocks that herald dawn all night, the drumming, the moaning that will be found later white plumage huddled on telegraph wires in back gardens or fowl roosting in apple trees, the eternal sorrow that never sleeps of great Mexico.
As every bird-watcher knows, the beauty of a bird's song is inversely correlated with the colourfulness of its plumage.
People are crying up the rich and variegated plumage of the peacock, and he is himself blushing at the sight of his ugly feet.
A chicken with beautiful plumage does not sit in a corner.
You cannot make a beautiful plumage out of a pig's tail.